2023 Asthma Quality Improvement Initiative - Call for Applications |
The Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island (CTC-RI) in collaboration with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) and Tufts Health Plan are pleased to offer up to 6 primary care practices, working within systems of care the opportunity to apply for funding to participate in a 6-month Asthma Quality Improvement
CTC-RI will provide funding to support health care practices (pediatric, family medicine and adult medicine) in their efforts to participate in a data driven asthma quality improvement initiative to improve the management of patients diagnosed with asthma, with special attention to those patients with severe or uncontrolled asthma and using higher levels of care, such as emergency departments and in-patient care. The need for an Asthma Quality Improvement Initative has grown out of the RIDOH Asthma Strategic Plan and RI data that shows striking racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric asthma outcomes. Current asthma prevalence among children is higher in Rhode Island’s high poverty urban core cities than the state average. Emergency department visit rates for a primary diagnosis of asthma are higher for children living in the core cities than for children overall in Rhode Island (11.1 per 1,000 children vs. 6.2 per 1,000 children). Among children living in Rhode Island’s four high poverty urban cities, the asthma hospitalization rate was higher than the rest of the state, at 1.6 per 1,000 children. Even though asthma is controllable, an estimated 50% of children have uncontrolled asthma and 40% of adults reported having one or more asthma attacks in the last year.
Applications from pediatric, family medicine or adult primary care practices are due March 3, 2023. Project activities will begin April 12th, 2023 and continue for 6 months.
To learn more about this project, including milestones and requirements, follow this link.
View the full application before completing.
For support, please reach out to Michelle Mooney, MPA, Program Coordinator: mmooney@ctc-ri.org
If needed, you can close out of the application window and you will be able to return to the spot where your application left off. You must complete the page and select next for it to bring you back to the same spot.
For example, if you want it to bring you back to page 2, you must complete all items on page 2 and select next to save your data. If you not able to fully complete a section, you will not be able to select next and it will not save the data from that page.
CTC-RI will provide funding to support health care practices (pediatric, family medicine and adult medicine) in their efforts to participate in a data driven asthma quality improvement initiative to improve the management of patients diagnosed with asthma, with special attention to those patients with severe or uncontrolled asthma and using higher levels of care, such as emergency departments and in-patient care. The need for an Asthma Quality Improvement Initative has grown out of the RIDOH Asthma Strategic Plan and RI data that shows striking racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric asthma outcomes. Current asthma prevalence among children is higher in Rhode Island’s high poverty urban core cities than the state average. Emergency department visit rates for a primary diagnosis of asthma are higher for children living in the core cities than for children overall in Rhode Island (11.1 per 1,000 children vs. 6.2 per 1,000 children). Among children living in Rhode Island’s four high poverty urban cities, the asthma hospitalization rate was higher than the rest of the state, at 1.6 per 1,000 children. Even though asthma is controllable, an estimated 50% of children have uncontrolled asthma and 40% of adults reported having one or more asthma attacks in the last year.
Applications from pediatric, family medicine or adult primary care practices are due March 3, 2023. Project activities will begin April 12th, 2023 and continue for 6 months.
To learn more about this project, including milestones and requirements, follow this link.
View the full application before completing.
For support, please reach out to Michelle Mooney, MPA, Program Coordinator: mmooney@ctc-ri.org
If needed, you can close out of the application window and you will be able to return to the spot where your application left off. You must complete the page and select next for it to bring you back to the same spot.
For example, if you want it to bring you back to page 2, you must complete all items on page 2 and select next to save your data. If you not able to fully complete a section, you will not be able to select next and it will not save the data from that page.